From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T00:00:40+09:00
Subject: Re: weird keyword parameters in rails

On 9/7/05, robbie <robbie.carlton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm very new to Ruby, and to Ruby on Rails.
> I'm halfway through the pickaxe book, past all of the stuff on syntax,
> and I haven't seen anything explaining the keyword parameter syntax
> used extensively in rails. The syntax I mean is:
> 
> method( :keyword => "value" )
> 
> I understand how to use this, I'm just not sure where it comes from.
> Am I being docile, or is this slightly weird?

It's a hash with a Symbol as a parameter.

Try it in irb.

  def foo(bar)
    puts bar.class
    puts bar.inspect
  end

  foo(:keyword => 'value')

-austin
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